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Religious Political Parties and the Limits of Political Liberalism

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Author	Botti, Matteo
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Political parties have only recently become a subject of investigation in political theory. In this paper I analyse religious political parties in the context of John Rawls’s political liberalism. Rawlsian political liberalism, I argue, overly constrains the scope of democratic political contestation and especially for the kind of contestation channelled by parties. This restriction imposed upon political contestation risks undermining democracy and the development of the kind of democratic ethos that political liberalism cherishes. In this paper I therefore aim to provide a broader and more inclusive understanding of ‘reasonable’ political contestation, able to accommodate those parties (including religious ones) that political liberalism, as customarily understood, would exclude from the democratic realm. More specifically, I first embrace Muirhead and Rosenblum’s (Perspectives on Politics 4: 99–108 2006) idea that parties are ‘bilingual’ links between state and civil society and I draw its normative implications for party politics. Subsequently, I assess whether Rawls’s political liberalism is sufficiently inclusive to allow the presence of parties conveying religious and other comprehensive values. Due to Rawls’s thick conceptions of reasonableness and public reason, I argue, political liberalism risks seriously limiting the number and kinds of comprehensive values which may be channelled by political parties into the public political realm, and this may render it particularly inhospitable to religious political parties. Nevertheless, I claim, Rawls’s theory does offer some scope for reinterpreting the concepts of reasonableness and public reason in a thinner and less restrictive sense and this may render it more inclusive towards religious partisanship.
Starting Page	107
Ending Page	123
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13564765
Journal	Res Publica
Volume Number	17
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15728692
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2010-12-21
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Religious political parties Political liberalism Public reason Reasonableness Unreasonable parties Philosophy Ethics Political Philosophy Philosophy of Law Philosophy of Religion
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Law

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